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Police shot girl, 7, during TV show filming

Aiyana Jones
Aiyana Jones

originally published by: The Daily Telegraph
18th May 2010

An attorney representing the family of a seven-year-old girl who was shot to death during a raid in Detroit said the police operation was flawed and was influenced by TV production concerns.

Aiyana Jones was shot and killed as she slept on a living room sofa after an officer’s gun went off as police searched the house for a suspect.

Attorney Karri Mitchell told The Detroit News that the police “were excited; they were on TV”. “They didn’t have to throw a grenade through the front window when they knew there were children in there,” the attorney said.

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Arrest history allowed in transit shooting case

originally by: Associated Press
published: 8th May 2010

Jurors in the upcoming trial of a former transit officer charged with murdering an unarmed man can hear about an incident in which police reported the man ran from officers and resisted arrest, a judge ruled Friday.

Superior Court Judge Robert Perry granted a defense motion to allow some details about the arrest history of Oscar Grant, who was shot in the back and killed at an Oakland transit station on New Year’s Day 2009.

Ex-Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Jonannes Mehserle, 28, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Grant. The trial was moved from Alameda County to Los Angeles due to widespread media coverage and racial tensions sparked by the case.

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Police failed custody death man

Nadeem Khan
Nadeem Khan

originally published by: BBC News
7th May 2010

Police who detained a man before he died failed to recognise a “medical emergency”, an inquest jury has found. Nadeem Khan, of Lancashire, who had been arrested for displaying violent behaviour, had high levels of cocaine in his blood when he died in 2007.

The jury at Preston Coroner’s Court said Mr Khan was suffering from excited delirium which had not been recognised. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has called for officers to be trained to deal with the condition.

A narrative verdict read out to the court said: “The contributory factors leading to Mr Khan’s death are the physiological stress that Mr Khan suffered.

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